The Jeffersonian Republic
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Adams left
Midnight appointments (Jefferson refused to recognize them) - Jefferson's actions
- Pardoned those convicted under Alien/Sedition Acts
- Albert Gallatin, treasurer
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Hamilton thought debt was good (wealthy people depended on gov)
Jefferson undid that - Marbury v. Madison
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William Marbury (a midnight judge) sued Madison for not certifiying his appointment.
Sentence: Marbury had right, but court could not enforce it. JUDICIAL REVIEW - Jefferson's Accomplishment
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Lousiana Purchase
Spain gave New Orleans to the French (American trade would be restricted)
Bought the whole region instead - Lewis and Clark
- explored new land
- Burr ran for NY govenor
- Hamilton supported the other person AGAIN. Burr killed Hamilton in duel.
- Jefferson's Second turn
- French-English dispute, lead to the War of 1812
- War of 1812
- British and French were in stalemate, began blocking each other and annoyed the US
- The failed boycott
- Britain attacked American ship in American waters. Jefferson didn't have the war resources, so he put up a boycott.
- Embargo Act of 1807
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Shut down import/export business.
New England economy collapsed. - James Madison, succesor (and super similar) to Jefferson
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The bribe: if one country stopped harrassing American ships, America would stop trade with the other one.
Napolean, prince of liars, responded. - War Hawks - pro war because they wanted land
- Henry Clay and John Calhoun
- Tecumseh and the Prophet
- against the Americans
- War of 1812 details
- Washington DC set on fire. English-French hostilities ended. War cooled and the treaty was sined. Jackson won Battle of New Orleans (the only decisive American battle) AFTER the Treaty of Ghent was signed.
- Federalist decline
- They opposed the war and looked traitorish
- American manufacturing
- Self development by necessity, less dependent
- Henry Clay's AMerican system
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National Road (MD to OH)
Tariffs
National Bank reinstituted - Monroe - "Era of good feelings"
- one party
- McCulloch v. Maryland
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states could not tax the National Bank
national law > state law - Panic of 1819
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Economic destabalization
People owed the bank
Many failures, poverty
Monroe won re-election because nobody organized political opposition - John Quincy Adams
- Got Florida from Spain
- Monroe Doctrine
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Stay out of the West
America could intervene - Expansion after War of 1812
- Debate over slavery fueled
- Missouri Compromise
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Maine (taken from Mass) = free
Missouri = slave
no slavery in new territory (southern border of Missouri)